Autism is the filter through which all my other senses must pass, both input and output. — Stuart Duncan Copy Share Image
Social interactions can be enormously challenging for people on the spectrum. That's part of the reason that unemployment among autistic adults hovers… — John Donvan Copy Share Image
I decided to study special education and fell in love with working with individuals with autism. That's what I planned to do… — Clay Aiken Copy Share Image
I'm on the autism spectrum. I don't usually follow social coding and so therefore I go my own way. — Greta Thunburg Copy Share Image
Katie, 90% of the things you worry about don't happen, and the 10% that do, you can't do anything about. — Mary Fisher Copy Share Image
“It should be noted that a recent publication has shown that the prevalence of autism in African Americans is nearly 25% higher… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Autism is defined by looking at behaviors. And everybody looks at behaviors differently. — John Donvan Copy Share Image
“But in a home where grief is fresh and patience has long worn thin, making it through another day is often heroic… — Melanie Bennett Copy Share Image
Society and government at all levels - the state level, the local level and, of course, the federal level - really needs… — Chris Smith Copy Share Image
I have a fairly strict definition of early infantile autism. That is not to say that people who don't meet that classic… — Darold Treffert Copy Share Image
By including children with different learning abilities in mainstream and specialized schools, we can change attitudes and promote respect. By creating suitable… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
What is missing from today's dialogue is the effect autism is having on families, our society and what the unknown factors are.… — Jenny McCarthy Copy Share Image
“We know that children with autism like order, that they are often very visual and that they can be quite literal. They… — Adele Devine Copy Share Image
One out of every six American women has so much mercury in her womb that her children are at risk for a… — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr Copy Share Image
The position of Autism Speaks has been for quite awhile that we need to find out what's happening. We know there's a… — Elizabeth Emken Copy Share Image
“That night, my heart softened around Wills's autism. Clearly, Katherine had been right. I couldn't isolate him. As painful as it was… — Monica Holloway Copy Share Image
“At the root of the problem? That sticky wheat protein, gluten. Although the jury is still out on the connections between gluten… — David Perlmutter Copy Share Image
Much attention has been focused on the MMR shot itself, whereas in all probability it is a combination of the three factors… — Bernard Rimland Copy Share Image
“Be that as it may, some of those that would no longer be diagnosed “autistic” today were diagnosed on the autism spectrum… — Thomas D. Taylor Copy Share Image
“The word “autism” still conveys a fixed and dreadful meaning to most people—they visualize a child mute, rocking, screaming, inaccessible, cut off… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
“Every engineer, doctor, and farmer on this ship has relatives on the waiting list, too, and those relatives won’t be drug addicts.… — Corinne Duyvis Copy Share Image
“I do not think God makes bad things happen just so that people can grow spiritually. Bad parents do that, my mother… — Elizabeth Moon Copy Share Image
“The world has a fast-growing problematic disability, which forges bonds in families, causes people to communicate in direct and clear ways, cuts… — Patrick Jasper Lee Copy Share Image
“Those close to [Patricia Highsmith], particularly her family, often commented on how Highsmith's vision of reality was a warped one. In April… — Andrew Wilson Copy Share Image
“What matters to people with disabilities is how they can lead rewarding lives twenty or thirty years from now.” — Naoki Higashida Copy Share Image
Autism's an important part of who I am, but I'm a college professor and an animal scientist first. And I wouldn't want… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
I see people with Asperger's syndrome as a bright thread in the rich tapestry of life. — Tony Attwood Copy Share Image
“You have to be the bravest person in the world to go out every day, being yourself when no one likes who… — Matthew Dicks Copy Share Image
“In reference to Einstein's definition of insanity... No Mr. Einstein, that is not insanity, that is autism.” — Eileen Miller Copy Share Image
I did want to acknowledge and confirm the fact that my son does, indeed, have an autism diagnosis. — Jenny McCarthy Copy Share Image
Hope is the greatest thing for moms of autism. Hope is what gets us out of bed in the morning. I'm on… — Jenny McCarthy Copy Share Image
If you can't see the gift in having a child with autism, you're focusing too much on the autism and not enough… — Stuart Duncan Copy Share Image
“Any given therapy method might well work to some degree for some people with autism, but no approach will work across the… — Naoki Higashida Copy Share Image
“Autism, is part of my child, it's not everything he is. My child is so much more than a diagnosis.” — Sandra L Westendorf-Coelho Copy Share Image
It seems you can ask any friend, any relative, and they'll be able to tell you about someone they know with autism. — Gary Cole Copy Share Image
The Flutie Bowl is a great event that brings together people who really care about the autism community. We always have a… — Doug Flutie Copy Share Image
“I would like people to stop pressuring children to make friends. Friendships can’t be artificially created.” — Naoki Higashida Copy Share Image
Never ask for someone's thoughts on autism unless you are prepared to hear a story that doesn't resemble your own. — Stuart Duncan Copy Share Image
Autistic people's disabilities are widely known, but one of their best-established strengths is their attention to detail. — Simon Baron-Cohen Copy Share Image
“Adapting our own perception, following rather than leading and building bridges are all keys to helping the child with autism learn.” — Adele Devine Copy Share Image